Triangle Arts Trust
Associação Cultural VideoBrasil
Caribbean Contemporary Arts
Komunitas Utan Kayu
Jant-Bi
ZIFF
APAC
Drik Picture Library
Mysa
SuperSudaca
REYUM Institute of Arts and Culture
UCAD
BizArt/Arthub Arab Image Foundation
About the Network Partnerships
Artists Dan Halter (Zimbabwe), Jamsen Law (Hong Kong/China), Federico Lamas and Nicolás Testoni (Argentina), and Eustáquio Neves, Marcellvs L., Danillo Barata, and Caetano Dias (Brazil) are the first winners of the Videobrasil Residency Programme.
Halter won the Videobrasil Capacete Residency Prize; Caetano Dias, the Le Fresnoy Audiovisual Creation Award – France; Federico Lamas, the FAAP Digital Arts Prize; Nicolás Testoni, the Videobrasil Sacatar Residency Prize. Danillo Barata, Jamsen Law, Eustáquio Neves and Marcellvs L. have received the Videobrasil WBK Vrije Academie Prize.
Supported by the Prince Claus Fund, the Videobrasil Residency Programme benefits artists participating in the Festival’s competitive exhibition. The programme was launched during the 16th Festival, in São Paulo. It systematises Associação Cultural Videobrasil’s activities in the field of artistic residencies, and aims to strengthen the interchange programmes offered in Brazil and create a rotational dynamic that benefits Brazilian, Latin American, and African artists.
The programme’s partners are the Le Fresnoy Studio National des Arts Contemporains (France), the French Consulate General in Brazil, Alliance Française, Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado, and the WBK Vrije Academie (The Netherlands), with the collaboration of Capacete Entretenimentos (Brazil) and Instituto Sacatar (Brazil).
The first residencies will be undertaken in 2008 and 2009, in France, The Netherlands, and Brazil. The winning artists were selected by a commission comprised of Solange Farkas and Ana Pato (Associação Cultural Videobrasil), Tom van Vliet (WBK Vrije Academie), Marcos Moraes (FAAP), Helmut Batista (Capacete), and Inês Raphaelian and John Taylor Van Horne (of Instituto Sacatar).
Dan Halter (Zimbabwe)
ET Phone Home 2005 Phone cards from Europe and South Africa used to phone the artist's family in Zimbabwe with split rings to form a hanging door-way. 175 x 83cm
Artists Jamsen Law (China/Hong Kong), left, and Eustáquio Neves (Brazil), right, with Tom Van Vliet ( WBK Vrije Academie) and Solange Farkas (Associação Cultural Videobrasil) after the announcement of the first Videobrasil Residency Programme prizes